Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Highly desirable partly-printed DS as president, signed “Go: Washington,” one page, 13 x 16, June 9, 1795. Three-language ship's pap

Crisp ink signature, "Go: Washington,” on an off-white 3.25 x .75 sheet clipped from a 1768 ticket for the 'Mountain Road Lottery....

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 19.25 x 15.5, October 30, 1797. A four-language ship's papers issued to "James Humphrey, master o...

Full free frank, measuring 9.75 x 7.75 unfolded with a 5 x 3.25 center panel, addressed in another hand to "Capt Partridge at the Military Acad...

Revolutionary War-dated ALS as Governor of Virginia, signed "Th: Jefferson," one page, 8 x 12.75, January 11, 1781. Addressed from Richmon...

DS, signed "Th: Jefferson," one page, 8 x 13, December 16, 1791. An Act of the Second Congress, in part: "An Act for the relief of Da...

Partly-printed vellum DS, signed "Th: Jefferson" as president and "James Madison" as secretary of state, one page, 10.25 x 15.5,...

Manuscript DS, signed "James K. Polk" as president and "James Buchanan" as secretary of state, one page both sides, 9.5 x 14.5, ...

ALS, one page both sides, 6.5 x 8, June 28, 1856. Handwritten letter to a young friend and supporter, commenting on his recent nomination for presiden

DS as president, one page, 13.25 x 9.25, April 26, 1865. President Johnson appoints David Batchelder as "Deputy Postmaster at Amesbury, Massach...

Manuscript DS as president, one page both sides, 10.75 x 15.75, April 4, 1856. An official pardon issued by President Pierce for John Batz, who

Important TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 16, 1939. Letter to W. Tilghman Hemsley, chairman of the executive committ

Exceptional vintage matte-finish 15 x 10.5 Harris & Ewing photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt seated at his desk, signed boldly in the lower border i...

Vintage 8.75 x 12.5 Harris & Ewing photo of Truman in a handsome bust-length pose, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, &qu...

Extremely rare official White House card signed in bold fountain pen, "With best wishes—Lyndon B. Johnson." In very fine condition. ...

Signed book: An American Life. Deluxe first edition set, limited issue, numbered 718/2000. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Leatherbound hardcover, 6...

Signed book: Where the Light Enters. First edition. NY: Flatiron Books, 2019. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 210 pages. Signed on a free end

Signed book: Promise Me, Dad. First edition. NY: Flatiron Books, 2017. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 258 pages. Signed on an opening page in bl

Very desirable 8´ x 5´ nylon American flag that was flown over the United States Capitol during the presidential inauguration of Joe B

TLS signed "George Bush," one page, 6.25 x 8.5, personal letterhead, November 6, 2000. Letter to Little Rock philanthropist Jennings Osbor...

Signed book: All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings. First edition, limited issue, numbered 925/1000. NY: Scribner, 1999. Le

Signed book: Out of Many, One. First deluxe edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 2021. Hardcover with slipcase, 10 x 11.5, 208 pages. Signed on the colophon

Signed book: Decision Points. Later printing. NY: Crown Publishers, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 497 pages. Signed in black felt tip b

Signed book: Portraits of Courage. First edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 2017. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 x 10.25, 191 pages. Signed in black felt

Five books signed by Jimmy Carter, all hardcovers with dust jackets, each signed inside in ink, "J. Carter." Titles include: The Hornet...

Signed book: First Lady from Plains. First limited edition, one of 750 issued. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9

Brown leather portfolio folder belonging to James Earl Carter, Sr., and subsequently used by Jimmy Carter while working in his family's agricult...

Signed book: Giving. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9.5, 240 pages. Signed on the title page in black felt

Signed book: My Life. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 957 pages. Signed on the title page in blue fel

Signed book: My Life. First UK edition. London: Hutchinson, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 957 pages. Signed on the title page in blue

Signed book: The President Is Missing. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 513 pages. Si

Signed book: The President's Daughter. First edition. NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2021. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 594 pages. Si...

Vintage matte-finish 9.75 x 13.75 Harris & Ewing portrait of the former president, neatly signed and inscribed below in fountain pen, "To. ...

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 19, December 17, 1927. President Coolidge appoints Jay C. Huston of California as "a Foreign Ser...

Seven books, each hardcover with dust jackets or slipcases, individually signed on an affixed bookplate or an opening page in ink or felt tip by a for

Six books, each hardcover with dust jackets, individually signed on an affixed bookplate or an opening page in ink or felt tip by a former American pr

Signed book: Betty: A Glad Awakening. Limited first edition, numbered 271/300. NY: Doubleday, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 217 pages.

Partly-printed DS, signed “W. G. Harding,” one page, 8 x 7, January 20, 1919. Voucher from The Harding Publishing Company (The Mario

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 19, June 2, 1922. President Harding appoints Jay C. Huston of California as "a Consul of Class s...

FDC with a cachet honoring the beautification of America, signed in blue ballpoint, "Lady Bird Johnson." In very fine condition.

Signed book: A White House Diary. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7 x 9.25, 806 pages. Signed on a bo

Signed book: The Vantage Point. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 636 pages. Signed and insc

Unusual collection of Bouvier family material, originating from the estate of family friend Elisa Sullivan, who served as the caregiver for Jacqueline

Unusual official original color glossy 10 x 8 photo of a performance troupe at the White House, annotated on the reverse in pencil by First Lady Jacqu

Scarce original 'Texas Welcome’ program for a dinner and an event honoring President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson ...

Significant 50-star American flag flown over the United State Capitol on August 19, 1960, presented to Vice President Richard Nixon shortly after his

Two first edition books, both hardcover with dust jackets—Leaders, published by Warner Books in 1982, signed and inscribed on the half-title

Signed book: In the Arena. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 384 pages. Signed on a Nixon Librar...

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, August 20, 1976. Letter to Gerald G. Wagner of the United National Association of the United States o

Two signed books, both hardcover with dust jackets—a first Warner Books edition of The Real War, published in 1980, signed in blue ink by Ric

Felt tip signature, "Barack Obama," on a 5.5 x 8 page, on which the first page of the House Resolution impeaching President Donald Trump h...

Signed book: The Audacity of Hope. Later printing. NY: Crown Publishers, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 375 pages. Signed on the title p

Signed book: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. First edition. NY: Random House, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 403

Signed book: Renegades: Born in the USA. Deluxe first edition. NY: Crown Publishing, 2021. Hardcover with slipcase, 9.5 x 11.5, 303 pages. Signed prom

Ink signature, "Very respectfully yr. friend & Servt. Franklin Pierce," on an off-white lightly-lined sheet. Matted with an engraved p...

Signed book: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan. Limited first edition, numbered 263/300. NY: Random House, 1989. Clothbound hardcover with slipcase

Nine TLSs by Eleanor Roosevelt, each one page, ranging in size from 6 x 7 to 6 x 9.25, dated from 1934 to 1959. All to Mr. and Mrs. Adolph, with seven

White House card, 4 x 2.5, signed neatly in fountain pen as president, "Sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft, Dec. 4, 1912." Attractively matted a...

Partly-printed DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 13.75 x 19.75, May 13, 1909. President Taft appoints John William Ke

Matte-finish 3.5 x 5 head-and-shoulders photo of the first lady, signed in the lower border in black felt tip, "Bess W. Truman." In very f...

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, May 25, 1954. Letter to Judge Oscar C. Dancy, in full: “I certainly did appreciate your good

Color glossy 8 x 10 photo of Donald Trump in formalwear, signed in blue felt tip. In very fine condition.

Three words penned in George Washington's hand, "six pounds currency," on an irregularly trimmed 4.75 x 2.5 slip cut from a partly-pri...

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 19, March 8, 1919. President Wilson appoints Jay C. Huston of California as "Interpreter to the ...

Partly-printed DS, signed “S. Adams,” one page, 7.25 x 7, no date. As Governor of Massachusetts, Adams instructs State Treasurer Tho

Rare book: American Archives: Fourth Series, Vol. III. Washington: Published by M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1840. Hardcover, 9.5 x 14.25, hig

Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey (1737–1791) who is also known as the designer of the first official American flag.

Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “B. Franklin,” one page, 16 x 13.75, May 30, 1786. As president of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive

American politician from South Carolina who was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence (1749–1800). ALS, one page, 7 x 4.5, D

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, June 24, 1935. Letter to Philip Leibsohn. In part: "Some time ago I wrote to you, but have not received a replyR...

New Jersey statesman and a signer of the United States Constitution (1745–1806) who was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Cou

Partial hand-corrected manuscript by Mohandas Gandhi, one page, 6.25 x 8.25, on the reverse of a letter written in an unknown hand on Brij Bhushan Lal

DS in German and Hungarian, quickly signed by Wallenberg with an ink scribble (as he commonly did on documents of this type), one page, 8.25 x 13.25,

Vintage glossy 6.5 x 9.25 Clinedinst photo of Brandeis in his judicial robe, affixed to its original 11 x 13 photographer's mount, signed and in...

Official matte-finish 16.5 x 11.75 photo of the Burger Court by the Ackad studio of Washington, D.C., signed in the lower border in various ink types

Official glossy 9.5 x 7 photo of the Burger Court affixed to its original 13.5 x 11.25 mount, signed on the mount in ink and felt tip by all nine Supr

Vintage matte-finish 10 x 13.5 Hessler Supreme Court portrait of Frankfurter, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, "To my ...

Vintage matte-finish 6 x 9 Harris and Ewing photo of Holmes seated in his judicial robe, signed on the original 9.75 x 13.75 studio mat in black ink,

Official matte-finish 16.5 x 11.75 photo of the Warren Court by the Ackad studio of Washington, D.C, signed in the lower border in various ink types b

Official matte-finish 16.75 x 12 Ackad Studio photo of the Warren Court, signed in the lower border in ink by all nine Supreme Court justices: Earl Wa

TLS, one page, 5.25 x 8, April 14, 1949. Letter to Colonel R. C. Kuldell, in full: "I have your letter of Mar. 28, 1949. I do not concur with s...

TLS, signed prominently as "John D. Rockefeller," one page, 5.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, July 8, 1922. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. N. W. D...

French physicist (1852–1908) whose experiments with uranium salts led to the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity; for this breakthrough he

Rare book from the personal library of Alexander Graham Bell: The Making of Species by Douglas Dewar and Frank Finn. London: John Lane, 1909. Hardcove

German mathematician (1845-1918) who created set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of on

ALS in German, signed “A. E.,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, no date. Handwritten letter to Mr. Reiche, possibly the German physicist Fritz R

TLS in French, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.25 x 11, November 5, 1919. Letter to Professor Jean Baptiste Perrin, who would go o

Surgeon (1869–1939) who pioneered many modern neurosurgical techniques and investigated the functions of the pituitary gland. TLS, one page,

Segment of the first transatlantic telegraph cable from 1858, measuring 4" long, made into a souvenir and sold by Tiffany & Co. The cable i...

French physician and politician (1738–1814) whose name became synonymous with the 'humane' instrument of execution whose use he propos...

English systematic botanist and organizer, and botanical illustrator (1785–1865) who held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow U

Bavarian priest (1821-1897) who pioneered naturopathic medicine, particularly a form of hydrotherapy known as the Kneipp cure. Choice 4.25 x 6.5 cabin

Rare autograph DS in German, signed "Gregor Mendel," one page, 8.25 x 13.5, September 1, 1876. Untranslated document concerning a financia...

American zoologist (1781–1866) who specialized in North American ornithology and mammology, remembered for challenging the works of John Jame

ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, October 30, 1888. Handwritten letter to a friend with importan

Indian physicist (1888-1970) whose work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. Rare vintage matte-finish 3.75 x

German doctor and politician (1821–1902), dubbed the 'Father of Pathology,' who founded the field of social medicine. ALS in German, o...

ALS signed “N. Tesla,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 6.75, personal monogram letterhead, June 14, 1899. Handwritten let

British naturalist, explorer, and biologist (1823–1913) best known for proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin

German Jewish philosopher and writer (1878–1965) who evolved a philosophy inspired by the study of Hasidism. Collection of eight handwritten